Human rights and the culture wars: Globalization and the universality of human rights

International Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 94-112

  Howard, Rhoda E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0004782463     PISSN: 00207020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40203273     Document Type: Article

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20. Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1993 [1st ed 1982]), 19.
21. See also Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Feminism is Not the Story of My Life (New York: Anchor Books 1996).
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